Brad Sears
Christy Mallory
June 2014
Report Update: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Non-Discrimination
Policies of the Top 50 Federal Contractors and the Top 50 Fortune 500 companies,
2013
This Appendix updates the report Economic Motives for Adopting LGBT-Related Workplace
Policies released by the Williams Institute in October 2011 and updated in March 2013. It
provides an updated list of the top 50 federal contractors and the top 50 Fortune 500
companies that have non-discrimination policies that include sexual orientation and gender
identity. The list of top contractors is based on federal procurement data reported for fiscal
year 2013.1 The top 50 Fortune companies are taken from the 2013 Fortune 500 list.
As of June 2014, 86% of the top 50 federal contractors prohibited discrimination based on
sexual orientation, and 61% prohibited discrimination based on gender identity (Table 1).2
Combined, the top 50 contractors represent 48% of all contracting dollars awarded by the
federal government—over $218 billion in spending. All but one of the top 50 Fortune 500
companies prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation (98%) as of April 2014, and
84% prohibited discrimination based on gender identity (Table 2).
Overall, the percentages of top 50 federal contractors and top 50 Fortune 500 companies with
sexual orientation and gender identity non-discrimination policies have increased since the
Williams Institute began tracking the policies in October 2011. As of October 2011, 81% of the
top 50 federal contractors prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation, and 44%
prohibited discrimination based on gender identity. Among the top 50 Fortune 500 companies,
96% prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation, and 70% prohibited discrimination
based on gender identity. The study was based on 2010 lists of the top federal contractors and
Fortune 500 companies. The increases over time are due in part to more companies adopting
these policies, and in part to a change in companies that ranked on in the top 50 on each list
from 2010 to 2013.
The March 2013 update, based on the top contractors and top Fortune companies in 2011,
found that 90% of the top 50 federal contractors prohibited discrimination based on sexual
orientation, and 67% prohibited discrimination based on gender identity. Among the top 50
Fortune 500 companies in 2011, 98% prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation and
88% prohibited discrimination based on gender identity as of March 2013. The decreases in
percentages between the March 2013 report and the current report are due to the change in
companies that ranked in the top 50 on each list from 2011 to 2013, and not to companies
rescinding policies. Among the top companies in 2011 data, one additional federal contractor
(Textron) has since added gender identity to its non-discrimination policy, increasing the
percentage of contractors with policies on the 2011 list to 68%. There have been no other
changes to the policies of those companies since March 2013.
1
Top 50 Federal Contractors, FY 2013
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
Company
Lockheed Martin
Boeing
Raytheon
General Dynamics
Northrop Grumman
SAIC
Huntington Ingalls
Industry
L-3 Communications
Holdings
United Technologies
BAE Systems
McKesson
Bechtel Group
Veritas Capital Fund
Humana
Computer Sciences
Corporation
Booz Allen Hamilton
URS
Health Net
Hewlett-Packard
Textron
General Electric
Babcock & Wilcox
Exelis
Harris
Fluor
General Atomic
Technologies
Battelle Memorial
Institute
CACI International
Bell Boeing Joint
Projecta
Bell Helicopter
(Textron Inc.)
The Boeing Co.
Los Alamos National
Security LLCa
Supreme Group
Honeywell
International
% of Total
Contracting
Dollars
Awarded
9.6%
4.6%
3.0%
2.9%
2.2%
1.4%
Dollars
Awarded
(millions)
44,114
21,173
14,060
13,109
9,996
6,302
Sexual Orientation
X
X
X
X
X
X
1.4%
6,238
X
1.3%
1.2%
1.0%
1.0%
0.9%
0.8%
0.8%
5,778
5,714
4,838
4,738
3,981
3,668
3,495
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
0.8%
0.7%
0.7%
0.7%
0.6%
0.6%
0.6%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
3,468
3,194
3,161
3,083
2,805
2,718
2,539
2,501
2,494
2,261
2,225
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
0.5%
2,156
0.5%
0.5%
2,120
2,106
X
X
0.5%
2,096
-
-
-
-
Gender Identity
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
0.4%
0.4%
2,030
2,028
X
X
0.4%
1,927
X
X
2
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
TOTAL
Triwest Healthcare
Alliance
Oshkosh
California Institute of
Technology
Sierra Nevada
Corporation
United Launch
Alliance
Alliant Techsystems
Jacobs Engineering
Amerisourcebergen
Lawrence Livermore
National Security
Merck & Co.
Mantech International
Coins ‘n Things
Refinery Associates of
Texas
United Healthgroup
IBM
UT-Battellea
University of
Tennessee
Battelle Memorial
Inst.
Mitre
Cardinal Health
0.4%
0.4%
1,850
1,733
X
X
0.4%
1,716
X
X
0.3%
1,573
XC
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
1,558
1,519
1,514
1,465
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
1,449
1,440
1,419
1,417
X
X
X
X
X
X
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
1,340
1,307
1,235
1,204
X
X
-
X
X
-
X
0.3%
0.3%
47.7%b
1,889
1,176
218,220b
X
X
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a
Contractor is a partnership that consists of two or more companies and does not have its own distinct
non-discrimination policy. The companies in the partnership are listed directly under the partnership
name. A policy is only listed for an individual company within the partnership if the company does not
appear elsewhere on this list.
b
Numbers may not sum to total due to rounding.
Information about this policy, which appears in the company’s employee handbook, was added June 17, 2014. The
policy is not included in the percentage of contractors with LGBT-inclusive policies as of April 2014, but will be
included in the next update to this report.
C
3
X
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Table 2: Top 50 Fortune 500 Companies, 2013
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
Company
Wal-Mart Stores
Exxon Mobil
Chevron
Phillips 66
Berkshire Hathaway
Apple
General Motors
General Electric
Valero Energy
Ford Motor
AT&T
Fannie Mae
CVS Caremark
McKesson
Hewlett-Packard
Verizon
Communications
United Health Group
J.P. Morgan Chase
Cardinal Health
IBM
Bank of America
Costco
Kroger
Express Scripts Holding
Wells Fargo
Citigroup
Archer Daniels Midland
Procter & Gamble
Prudential Financial
Boeing
Freddie Mac
Amerisourcebergen
Marathon Petroleum
Home Depot
Microsoft
Target
Walgreen
AIG
INTL FCStone
MetLife
Johnson & Johnson
Sexual Orientation
X
Gender Identity
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
4
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
TOTAL
Caterpillar
PepsiCo
State Farm Insurance
ConocoPhillips
Comcast
WellPoint
Pfizer
Amazon.com
United Technologies
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
49
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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Endnotes
1
Federal Procurement Data System – Next Generation, Top 100 Contractors Report,
https://www.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/en/reports/62-top-100-contractors-report.
2
Percentages are based on number of federal contractors with the policies out of a total of 49 contractors.
The total number of contractors is 49 rather than 50 because only unique entities were counted. This means
that if a contractor is made up of a partnership, those partners who were otherwise represented in the list
were not counted again (for example, Boeing is a partner in the Bell-Boeing Joint Project, but also appears
separately on the federal contractor list). Each partner not otherwise represented in the list was counted as
an individual contractor.
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